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The O 2 Academy Liverpool (formerly the L2 and Carling Academy Liverpool) is a music venue in Hotham Street, Liverpool, England, that is run by the Academy Music Group. The main building consists of performance areas. O 2 Academy1 can hold 1,200 (900 floor/300 balcony) people while O 2 Academy2 can hold 500.
The venue was purpose-built and opened in September 2002. The original occupant was the short-lived Marquee N1, a music and dining venue backed by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics and club promoter Mark Fuller. [1] The venue re-opened in its current form in September 2003 and is the smallest of the four London venues within the O2 Academy Group. [1]
The O 2 Academy Leeds (formerly known as the Town and Country Club) [1] is a music venue situated in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is run by the Academy Music Group, which has other music venues around the UK. The Academy was nominated for the TPi Awards 2010 for the country's favourite venue. [2]
The O2 Academy may refer to one of a number of Academy Music Group venues in the United Kingdom (in alphabetical order): O2 Academy Birmingham O2 Academy Bournemouth
The deal saw eleven UK venues renamed O2 Academies from 1 January 2009, with O2 customers able to buy tickets to gigs up to two days before others. [1] The deal also involved music promoter Live Nation who own 51% of the venues. [2] In July 2017, O2, Live Nation and Academy Music Group renewed the agreement for a further ten years. [3]
With the sale, the venue's title was changed to Carling Academy Brixton. In 2008, naming rights were purchased for £25.5 million by the O2 brand, owned by the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica. [19] Being one of the biggest non-arena music venues in London, the academy has been used by many very successful acts.
Like the former Academy venue, the new venue has a multi-room operation with the main room having a capacity of 3,009 (of which there is a dedicated 600 capacity seated area) and two other rooms, the O 2 Academy 2 with 600 and O 2 Academy 3 with 250. However, in an improvement to the Dale End site, the new venue was designed to allow all three ...
The O2 Academy Oxford is a night club and live music venue in Oxford, England, operated by Academy Music Group. [ 1 ] Its previous names include the Coop Hall, the Oxford Venue, the Zodiac and the Carling Academy Oxford.